“Religious prejudice is an inhuman relic of the Dark Ages and the persecution of a people on account of their religious beliefs, as we witness today in Germany, is in the same class as the other devices of barbarism.”
This was the message preached Sunday evening to worshipers at the Riverton Heights Presbyterian Church by Rev. E. P. Giboney, the church’s pastor, and a minister for 34 years. The clergyman spoke on “Religious Prejudice and the Jew.”
“It is the function of the Christian church in America,” Rev. Giboney said, “to teach the 20,000,000 children in our Sunday schools to always respect the views of another man’s faith. And it is the function of every Christian clergyman to speak out from the pulpit against religious intolerance and bigotry.”
Discussing Zionism, Rev. Giboney declared, “The Jew’s return to Palestine marks a wonderful fulfillment of the writings of the Old Testament.”
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